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Rhymin' and stealin' : musical borrowing in hip-hop / Justin A. Williams.
LIBRA ML3531 .W55 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Justin A.
- Series:
- Tracking pop
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rap (Music)--History and criticism.
- Rap (Music).
- Hip-hop.
- Allusions in music.
- Physical Description:
- xvi 256 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Rhyming and stealing : musical borrowing in hip-hop
- Musical borrowing in hip-hop
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Historicizing the breakbeat: hip-hop's origins and authenticity
- The construction of jazz rap as high art in hip-hop music
- Dr. Dre's "Jeep Beats" and musical borrowing for the automotive space
- The martyr industry: Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G., and postmortem sampling
- Borrowing and lineage in Eminem/2Pac's Loyal to the Game and 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Trying.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472118927
- 9780472118922
- OCLC:
- 820123724
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